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1.They Get Brave
7.510-07-202036mAs the coronavirus ravages more and more American cities, we look back to the place hit hardest: New York City. Doctors and nurses documented their lives, capturing awe‐inspiring r...
2.Dominic Fike, At First
07-08-202035mThe making of a pop star in 2020: A young musician is plucked from obscurity -- jail, actually -- and given a multi-million dollar record deal. Meet Dominic Fike as he prepares for...
3.The Killing of Breonna Taylor
04-09-202058mA New York Times investigation examines what happened at 3003 Springfield Drive in Louisville, Kentucky, just after midnight on March 13, when police executed a warrant that result...
4.Hurricane of Fire
10.018-09-202043mPerhaps a fitting start to 2020, Australia rang in the New Year with much of the country engulfed in flames. A few people decided to confront the blaze. Watch them stand face to fa...
5.The Teenager Who Hacked Twitter
1.020-11-202042mElon Musk. Bill Gates. Kanye West. Joe Biden. Barack Obama. They and dozens of others were being hacked recently, and Twitter appeared powerless to stop it. Who had brought the tec...
6.Framing Britney Spears
7.105-02-202174mHer rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she bat...
7.Who Gets To Be an Influencer?
04-06-202139mThe New York Times follows the rise of Collab Crib, the first mainstream Black "creator mansion," exclusively documenting their whirlwind drive to achieve social media stardom in 9...
8.Move Fast & Vape Things
17-09-202166mTwo Stanford graduate students had an inspired idea and an idealistic mission: create an e-cigarette that would help millions of people stop smoking. How did the founders of Juul l...
9.Controlling Britney Spears
8.024-09-202172mBritney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her.” This New York Times investigation reveals much of how it worked, inclu...
10.Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson
6.019-11-202170mIn 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman's breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued. The wo...
11.To Live and Die in Alabama
03-12-202170mThree police officers died in a shootout at a drug house in Alabama. One man was sentenced to death for the shootings, even though he was never accused of even touching the murder...
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